( 3258) 
PLATYLOBIUM OBTUSANGULUM. OBTUSE- 
LEAVED FLAT-PEA. 
KEKE KEKE ERE EEE KEKE REE 
Class and Order. | 
DiApeLpHiA DEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminoss. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx bracteatus, bilabiatus: labio superiore bifido ro- 
tundato maximo. Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen 
pedicellatum, compresso-planum, dorso alatum, polysper- 
mum. Br. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Piatytosium obtusangulum ; foliis deltoideis angulis obtu- 
siusculis cum mucrone, pedunculis brevissimis (caly- 
ceque ad basin) bracteatis. 
Descr. Stems weak, filiform, irregularly branched and 
proliferous from the axils of the leaves, trailing upon the 
ground if not supported by a stick, greenish, slightly downy. 
Leaves opposite, rather remote, deltoid, subcoriaceous, the 
angles rather obtuse, but each tipped with a point: the 
younger ones almost cordate, without angles, of a pale . 
yellow-green colour. Flowers large, in pairs from the 
axils of the leaves, upon peduncles so short that they ma 
almost be deemed sessile, and these so covered with three 
or four brown, concave bracteas, as entirely to conceal 
them : two other larger and opposite bracteas appear at the 
base of the calyx. Upper lip of the calyx exceedingly 
large ; the two lobes opposite, appressed : lower lip small 
and three-toothed. Standard very broad, somewhat reni- 
form, with a deep notch at the top, within of a bright | 
orange colour with a red ray in the centre: outside orange- 
red, 
